Quote of the day

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Martin Tupper

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Henry Miller

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.